By
Wladyslaw Reymont
“The Comédienne” is the tale of a Polish girl who rebels against her drab existence in a remote hamlet, and joins a company of provincial players. Against the colorful background of this theatrical life her tragic story is woven.
The character and development of this strange young Slavic woman and the settings and personalities of her environment are described with graphic strength by Wladyslaw Reymont.
THE STRANGENESS
OF NOEL CARTON
By
WILLIAM CAINE
Noel Carton, driven to desperation by his vulgar little wife who, in buying his position, is forced to accept him with it, determines to bury himself in the writing of a novel, in the vain hope of forgetting. At the same time he elects to keep a secret journal. In his novel he subconsciously draws the portraits of the living people surrounding him.
How this novel becomes inextricably entangled with his own journal is the basis for this extraordinarily original story which leads to an astounding climax.